Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman

Drawing on new primary sources, this biography is the first to detail the influence of British history, literature, and culture--in particular, the ideas of Winston Churchill--on America's thirty-fifth president. For the first time we trace the friendships and forces that led to the White House and shaped Kennedy's actions there. In this intimate portrait of a leader torn between politics and principle, we finally come to know the man Kennedy wanted to be and to understand his long, private struggle to become that man.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/2007
ISBN: 9780393329704
Pages: 509
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.10w x 1.38d